Kind of not very funny in all. Long before Control Booth, I once did a websearch into theater and found a home website that is now for the most part a dead website. About at best one new member per two months with about 3x that amount of posts to their initial question per two months.
I'm seeming also a asst. webmaster at Tech Theater Discussion. Only became this because I bitched the loudest about the absentee webmaster and easy joining policies up until the webmaster came back and made it approval only for membership. Normally my approvial since he is back to being otherwise busy.
Here I am at the time stuck with photos and my tales about theater on the same website as now porn type people as the most active members. No way to remove my posts, and no way as a general member to remove certain members. Don't know how they found the basically in-active website or what about it's title interested porn people, but we seemingly got a new member from the Porn advertising industry a week.
In complaining, I went all the way up to MSN in asking them to either shut down the in-active website or at least give someone else the control powers over it, in addition to sending out a personal E-Mail to all members active or not in also asking them to complain to the webmaster and MSN, plus asking both Dave and the webmaster of HS.Tech if they might be able to take over or back the website in a take over of control of it for us somehow.
Even played the porn advertised to kids ploy to the un-helpful folks at MSN. They did not care about the "but what about the children?" ploy in my only usage of it to date. I hated to see what I and other members in the past had written be deleted but it was by far better than being associated with a porn website.
All other members that responded felt the same but were more hesitent to just get rid of the website than I. Of course, given at the time there was only about three active members, and many had even forgotten about the website is should not be surprising. Dave you ever go away for about 12 months from here as if a vacation and you are dead meat. I will post where you live.
Seems this easy to find
thru MSN website though largely inactive had a wee
bit of a problem with porn spammers joining the website than using it to advetrtise their various porn websites. This on a MSN webstite designed and membered at least once by a population similar to this one. Even got to the
point at one
point that the porn spammers were I think discussing things with each other on the theater website. In any case, now I am one of perhaps four active members - that is at least of the members I allow to join. Only about three out of 12 people asking to join in the last six months turned out to be theater types. Of them I can easily count on one
hand how many active members overall have more than one post in the last year.
Control booth, HS tech and Stagecraft have many advantages. Were it not for the first webmaster telling me about stagecraft... I granted will have never heard about control booth, much less will not have done any internet stuff given the first website I was a member of is about dead now.